"Some people know they're doing a caricature of a black person, if they're wearing ghettofab grills, or stuffing butt— things they clearly know are racially charged," Divine said. "Other people may just love Michelle from The Walking Dead. No matter the intent, even if you're just trying to honor a character…just don’t do it, really upsetting to black community."

"Starting in the 1800s, white American actors performing in minstrel shows would rub their faces with shoe polish or greasepaint to impersonate black people and act out racist stereotypes of black people," she writes. "These minstrel shows were enjoyed by white people who wanted to dehumanize blacks so they could continue to view and treat their slaves as less-than-human."

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